Keeping a diary.
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Is there a particular way to write dates into your diary? Should I be using the Thelemic dates for every entry because Luna changes it's degrees continually? Should I just do this once for the day even if it has changed at a certain time of the day? Or does it even matter as long as there's some form of date even if it is in "e.v."? Sorry for such a newbie question and if it has been asked before. Thank you for any responses.
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IMO the regular calendar date/time is the easiest to go back and cross reference.
You can always look up the astrology of the date/time of an event much easier than the other way around, and the moon spends more than a day in each sign, so it's not very precise.
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I think easier is always better; why complicate things ONLY for the sake of complicating? The point here isn't to be showy, but to be practical.
So in my own diary, the entries are always in the style of:
"28 June (Jupiter)
1.08am- Posted to the Temple of Thelema"Note that the "(Jupiter)" is the sign for Jupiter, to keep track of what day of the week it was (ie. Jupiter is Thursday), which is sometimes important to remember.
Unless you are such a master at remembering astrological timing or thelemic calendar dates that later on you won't have to just look it up anyways to try to figure out what date it was you had written down, there isn't much point in writing in something that won't actually help you reference anything.
93!
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I do not think my dating system is overly complicated. I have Solfire astrology software, so looking up the moon's exact degrees is no sweat - and I verify using a free planetarium type program called Stellarium that the stars are actually where I'd expect them to be. If I am doing a specific planetary operation, I also note exactly what degree the various planets involved are in. And like Swamiji wrote, the planetary words in my following example would actually use the correct corresponding glyph - not the words.
Month/Day/Year e.v. time-stamp
sol in sign degree, luna in sign degree
other possible planetary influences by sign degree
brief weather report
Entry.Yes - all the other information I could look up (the planets) in later reading - but since I have the opportunity to note it at present, and it will make rereading the journal easier to have it available, why not do it?
